Akufo-Addo has not called for NPP Delegates Conference postponement – Wontumi

The Ashanti regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Benard Antwi Bosiako, widely known as Chairman Wontumi, has refuted claims that the former president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked the party to postpone its early National Delegates Conference scheduled for Saturday, July 19, 2025, at the University of Ghana Sports Stadium.

According to a report by Wontumionline.com, he made this known in an interview on Movement TV on Monday, July 14, 2025.

Chairman Wontumi stated that the former president supports the decision by the party's National Council saying “I am an Akufo-Addo loyalist and if he had decided otherwise, he would have informed me. He speaks to me like a son, and I speak to him as a dad”.

He explained that the decision by NPP’s National Council to hold its early conference on January 31, 2026, remains unchanged.

“It is the National Council that has power to select a date for the election. They have spoken and settled on 31 January. They have arranged venue and the bus to bring in the delegates”, he said.

Chairman Wontumi further urged members of the NPP to show President Akufo-Addo respect and stop “disgracing” him in public.

“Akufo-Addo hasn’t spoken. People should stop putting words in his mouth. We should be celebrating him not disgracing him”, he said.

The NPP’s annual delegates conference is expected to draw thousands of party delegates from across the country and will be crucial in shaping the party’s direction ahead of the 2028 general elections.

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